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I don't think the reason for your central claim has been understood. Could you lay it out for us again, in a coherent fashion. I sense others have been arguing against what they think you said, not what you meant.

The 2012 date is correct. It was however 2012 B.C. All subsequent events have occured within the imagination of a date seller from Heliopolis, who escaped the mass conflagration by pure chance: he fell into a chronosynclastic infundibullum, a feature of space-time he would later imagine Kurt Vonnegut to create in Slaughterhouse Five and Sirens of Titan. The majority of his atoms were replaced by pseudomorphs, except for portions of his left heel. This is unfortunate. Should he ever look at his heel the act of observation will cause his probabilty wave to collapse, he will turn into a cat and we will cease to be imagined. [Think outside the box and they say you're mad.]

Give me one benefit that another base, say 16, offers over 10.

SF in which the bulk of the science is well founded and the rest is given at least a veneer of plausibility. At the other end of the spectrum you merge into Fantasy.

Everything about singularities is hard to imagine. That doesn't mean they lack properties.

I also remember which side you Finns were on .... and why. You are the only enemy Britain ever had that we never attacked. Must have been application of Games Theory. (That was an effort, but I think we've got it back on topic.)

Accepted. So why have you adopted the name of a second Century Roman military commander from Campania? You must know he has been discredited as the historical basis of the Arthurian legends.(To get this back on topic your counter to this attack should employ some basic Games Theory.)

Well done Gilded. That's the first post on this forum that has literally made me laugh out loud, as opposed to a smile and a quiet chuckle. Still laughing now. In fact you've made me forget how I was going to provoke Artorius again.

If I understood everything I post I would be making a fortune writing popular science books. Fortunately some people do - understand what I post - even when they haven't read it. Here is one of them: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/centre.html Hope that helps.

Hmmm.. You don't think that might be something to do with the hiring policy of a male dominated industry do you? Nooooo, surely not.

I'm not going to be gentle like Coquina and Vending Machine. Trust me' date=' it's for your own good. [u']Get a grip on reality boy![/u] If you understand the play, in all its aspects - background, plot, characters, 'message', style, etc - then writing such a journal would be a breeze, and an outstanding way of communicating to your teacher that you did indeed understand the play. Rejecting the exercise as subjective and total crap is a display of either great arrogance or great ignorance. If I were a good teacher I would look at your test result, take you to one side and kick you up the butt. If I were a bad teacher, or had seen this short sighted attitude from you before I would drop you off my radar screens. Vending machine said, Not everything in life is objective. In my view that is a masterpiece of understatement. VM is trying to ease you into reality. The subjectivity you encounter at school or college is like eighty-seven decimal place, peer-reviewed, reproduce-the-experiment-anywhere objectivity, compared with what you will meet in the 'real' word. I am not certain how well carrying out such assignments will help you read authority figures [it can't do any harm], but it might help you adjust to that 'real' world working life, where you don't have the choice about what assignments you undertake. If this post strikes you as patronising, then good. You'll run into a lot of that, from people you know you are better than. Get used to it. If you understand what I am trying to do here, then even better.

This may have been one of a series of programs that looked at possible evolutionary paths if we suffered a major bolide impact that eliminated most terrestrial life. The cephalapods come onshore where they evolve into a variety of forms, including a primate analog - the squibbon - swinging through the trees on eight arms. I think it was intended as a plausible rather than probable view of events and as such it worked for me. With trilobites long gone cephalopods are about the only invertebrate I'd pass the time of day with.

It was [only?] Artorius. He would be disappointed if I didn't. And he's been making sense lately, so it becomes more challenging.

It doesn't have an edge. It doesn't have a centre.

That's the one thing I dislike about evolution: people we find really distasteful turn out to be relatives. In some cases I'd prefer the night crawling, egg sucking rat. [Was that a James Cagney line?]

I suppose Einstein would have said "That's relativity for you. The Universe is endless, whereas debates at Science Forums just seem endless." [Though sometimes they end seamless.]

With a different referent on this thread Swansont noted "I hear that" isn't exactly peer-review. I would incline to view denials by the US government in a similar light. Notwithstanding, the Philadelphia Experiment remains a good yarn, nothing more.

It's not simple: http://w3.aces.uiuc.edu/NRES/LPPBP/Estrifd.html

The moon may have water. Mars does have water. Lunar soil is devoid of in any reasonable quanitity of elements appropriate for agriculture. Martian soil has a suitable compostion to make an excellent starting point. A simple transparent plastic dome on the moon would experience wholly undesirable and inhospitable temperature fluctuations during the course of the lunar 'day'. The same dome on Mars would, with no additional heating, deliver comfortable temperatures internally in Mars 24hrs and a bit day. Absence of an atmosphere renders the lunar surface a hostile place form the standpoint of solar and cosmic radiation. The Martian atmosphere, though thin, provides adequate protection. The atmosphere on Mars provides a source of fuel, oxygen, and chemical feedstocks. The moon.... The list goes on: Mars should be the goal, not the moon.

Three possibilities: I like to provoke Artorius with obviously invalid statements. For the second time in two months I didn't check my facts before posting. Both of the above.

Men aren't all that bright, so you could fairly readily get them to kill each other. By the time they figured it out, it would be too late.

I don't want to be imprisoned without trial. I don't want to be tried without a jury. I don't want to carry an identity card. I don't want to live in a police state. Detention without trial: in very, very rare circumstances, for very limited periods, subject to close scrutiny by a parliamentary committee.

He can't. He doesn't have the time.